Shot 2 over today at Sunken Gardens. Started with 3 bogeys, then 5 pars, then a birdie at the last.
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ArrowCreek is an absolutely gorgeous private golf course in the Reno foothills. We were lucky enough to be invited to play with friends who live there. There are two 18 hole courses. We played the Challenge Course and it certainly lived up to its name. It is a desert-style course, often requiring you to carry…
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Country Meadows is our "warm-up" course when we head down to Arizona for Spring Training. It is a short par 63 that I think is in a retirement community. Pace of play is pretty good and it is in Peoria, not far from where the Mariners and Padres play their spring training games. 🙂 This…
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We have played the ASU/Karsten Golf Course each of the last two years during our annual spring training/golf trip to Arizona. It is a very challenging Pete Dye designed course with rolling undulating fairways, lots of trouble and tricky greens. There is a grass driving range with targets to warm up on. The staff are…
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Sunnyvale Muni is also pretty flat and wide open, although there is definitely more trouble to be found here than at Palo Alto Muni. It is a short course, a par 70 with only 2 par fives. The wind can really blow in the afternoons and there is little shelter from the wind on first…
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I hit the Big Bertha II driver on the range when I visited the Callaway Divine Nine. The one I hit was a regular flex with 10 degree loft. I can hit a Regular or a Stiff flex shaft in the driver and I didn’t have too much trouble hooking the ball with this shaft.…
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A flat, wide open course that is quite forgiving. There are few trees or major trouble spots. It is priced like most municipal courses in the bay area, about $50 to walk. Getting a tee time is hard, you generally have to call first thing in the morning the day they begin taking reservations for…
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I played Las Vegas National over a year ago. The couse was in good shape and I went out as a single on Friday mid-afternoon (10am I think) and actually played the round by myself. This course doesn’t have the desert area you find at The Badlands, it is much more green and lush. The…
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I’ve only played DeLaveaga once, and I was a bit under the weather and out of practice at the time, so keep that in mind as I gripe about this course. 🙂 The fairways are tight with woods/OB on at least one side of many of them. The greens were in pretty good shape, although…
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Los Lagos is a new course in San Jose. This is a course I’ve played pretty often over the last year. It is a par 68, with some very challenging holes. There is also a fun risk/reward par 4 with a 210-235 yard carry over water if you want to go for the green off…
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Over the last year, I’ve played a ton of golf at Sunken Gardens. This is where I got my first eagle. We’ve been playing an early morning round once a week, and recently we’ve played with just 2 irons and a putter. It isn’t a hard course, but it is pretty well maintained and it’s…
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The Badlands is a really hard course. I knew this coming in – everyone told me to bring lots of golf balls – and I needed them. Beware the super-expensive weekend rate ($190 – ouch!) and play during the week ($70) instead. The course was in excellent condition, although the greens were a touch on…
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I played the Callaway Divine Nine on Saturday afternoon. The Callaway Golf Center is a really nice facility, but the course and grass all over the facility was in really poor shape. I don’t know if they were getting ready to over-seed or what, but if you didn’t hit the green with your tee shot…
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First post. 🙂 I’ll be keeping notes on golf courses I’ve played and other golf related stuff here. This is a vanilla WordPress install with a custom CSS layout – something I wanted to play with.